Centre for Fusion Learning Innovation and Excellence
Embedding excellence through fusion of education, research and professional practice
For the last few weeks we have be trialling a virtual classroom environment which uses software provided by Blackboard. The application is called Collaborate. Collaborate allows you to create virtual, online spaces to which you can invite up to 100 students and colleagues and share video, audio, documents (PDFs, images and PowerPoints) and a whiteboard. … Read more » about Working in an online classroom
The digital skills self-assessment has been running since February 2016. The questionnaire is focused on academic staff and seeks to understand staff’s confidence in using tools from the TEL Toolkit and in the wider digital sphere. Our hope is that all academic staff will find 15 minutes to complete the questionnaire. The benefits to staff… Read more » about Digital skills self-assessment – what the questionnaire is telling us
Building on the successful ‘roadshows’ that CEL delivered in the last academic year and thinking ahead to the start of the new academic year, CEL staff are happy to provide input on any of our three themes (innovative pedagogy, assessment and feedback – Anne Quinney; employability – Carly Lamont; and technology-enhanced learning – David Biggins… Read more » about Would you like CEL to provide input into your team or department awaydays?
A report published yesterday by QAA explores the growing threat to UK higher education from custom essay writing services, or ‘essay mills’. It looks at how these services operate, gives examples from their websites, and highlights the claims they make, in particular their guarantees of being ‘plagiarism free’. QAA was commissioned to carry out this… Read more » about Plagiarism in Higher Education – Custom essay writing services: an exploration and next steps for the UK higher education sector – a report from QAA
CEL attended a meeting of the Paramedic team on Monday to give a presentation on the use of Peerwise to support student learning and engagement. Peerwise is a free, online application, written by academics in New Zealand, that allows students to create questions that are answered by their peers. There is more information in the… Read more » about Using Peerwise with the Paramedic team
With the new semester approaching, Library and Learning Support have created an excellent page in the TEL Toolkit which explains the structure of a standard unit and provides links and PDFs of supporting material. This is really useful information to consider when preparing your units for semester 1 delivery. Click here to access the page. The… Read more » about What content can you add to myBU
We have been collecting data on staff’s digital skills for the last 6 months and have received 215 responses to date. CEL is using this data to plan how we can configure our resources to best help academic staff in their teaching and learning. Staff who have completed the questionnaire say it has been useful… Read more » about Using the TEL Toolkit to expand your knowledge
Student satisfaction at Bournemouth University has risen by 3% in the independent 2016 National Student Survey (NSS) to 82% – the highest ever figure that BU has achieved since the NSS survey began in 2005. The national sector average has remained at 86%. The NSS, run by Ipsos MORI, surveys final year students across the… Read more » about BU NSS score rises to 82%
The Fusion Building has been a significant investment for BU and the design, functionality and features can be used in different learning scenarios to deliver innovative teaching and learning. A crucial part of this is the Audio Visual equipment that has been installed throughout the building. The most up to date systems have been used… Read more » about Using the AV equipment in the new Fusion Building – 27 Jul 16
I was fortunate yesterday to be able to spend a morning in the Centre for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CILT – with a soft C as in CEL) at the University of Cape Town (UCT). UCT is one of Africa’s premier universities with a global reputation. UCT have some 27,000 students so are 50%… Read more » about A visit to the Centre for Innovation in Teaching and Learning, Cape Town
